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Deep fat fryer is caked in sodium stearate, which should tell you terrifying things about how I clean it and deal with the problem of disposing of used cooking oil.
in reply to Sarah Brown

seems a perfectly cromulent way of dealing with grease

And Tories

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Here there are cooking oil collection things in the streets by the bottle banks and used textiles containers.
in reply to Adam

@Adam Sodium stearate is water soluble, non toxic, and fun for all the family to make!
@Adam
in reply to Sarah Brown

sure, but recycling lets them turn it into biofuel or whatever, and it means I can keep my bucket of NaOH for degunging the sink.
in reply to Adam

I've saponified small amounts of oil in the past in the UK when it's been too much to flush otherwise.
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@Adam Portugal, having been blessed without a domestic terrorism problem, has DIY barns in which NaOH is at the milder end of what you can just plop into the self checkout. I call that section, “the bomb making aisle”. It’s quite fun.

Anyway, upshot is, I’ve got bloody kilos and kilos of the stuff.

@Adam
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@pseudomonas there's a Portuguese chap on y'tube that always seems to have access to some very interesting chemicals. This explains it.
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